form of a US drone RQ-170 at their own expense, Iranian Radio Payam, the state radio, reported. The idea of designing US drone toy was suggested by one of a friendfeed user and then another user accepted to build it.The products made by Ayeh Art which designed cultural products mugs with verses of the Koran printed on them, for instance, and small buttons picturing mosques.
State radio added the model will be one eightieth the size of the original aircraft, the RQ-170, the sophisticated drone that was being operated by the CIA when it crashed in eastern Iran.
The report stated the company also plans to sell the models on the Iranian market for about 70,000 rials, or around $4. The firm is now making 2,000 of them a day.
This is not made in China, Kioumarsi, the head of cultural production at the Ayeh Art group, stressed.
The products made by Ayeh Art Group are not widely known in Tehran, but Kioumarsi said he was confident that the model drones would sell like hotcakes.
The toys come with a transparent plastic stand emblazoned with a quotation from Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic: We will put America under our feet.
On Dec. 11, after President Obama said he had requested the return of the drone, an Iranian general said that it was not going to happen.
Iran is now humorously responding to President Obama's request in toy form. At least one model a pink one has been reserved for President Obama.
Sources: TheWashingtonPost, abcnews, Daily Tech
